Friday, May 16, 2014

If
this was just any other day in the history of Indian democracy, I wouldn’t have
voiced my opinions about a national revolutionary political party that is so
stringently pro anti-incumbency (oxymoron eh?) and anti-corruption that it made
the ‘consummate governance’ the holy grail of Indian politics and anything
short of the very idea, an absolute crime!

Before
this day, I always restricted voicing my thoughts about them, fearing it would
mistranslate into something as judgmental as their own sanctimonious rigid
ideology that is quite often backed by mere helplessness and accuses. Before
this day, any piece of write-up like this would’ve made me sound like a devil’s
advocate with no evidence.

But
today is the day when someone like me should speak, coz the nation already has
and by that I don’t mean you’re in for a Modi clan triumph. This rant (if you
will) is against a self-righteous bunch of activists who grabbed the nation’s
(or at least the urban crowd’s) attention in a jiffy from the revolutionary
movements a couple of years ago against corruption. But in the hindsight, they
were not more than mere mobocratic leaders backed up with paid social media
hooligans sh*ting all over your timeline much before the major parties even
conceived their stands for this year. This of course excludes the blinded elite
class who could actually be reading this and shaking their heads in
denial.

They
went head first, from agendas of corruption at all scales to issues of border
terrorism, to local prostitutions biased by racial indiscrimination. They
accused the leaders, blamed the system (while mocking it), created the gigantic
emotional buzz in the capital and assumed that it has spread over the entire
nation. They promised you your bare necessities, your additional necessities,
then the Sun, the Moon, the Stars and the entire fuc*ing milkyway, while
milking their every move through the visual, print and the social media. They
got instant success at a pace in the state election that they self-proclaimed
themselves as the juggernauts of the national elections even before it started.

They
formed the government in Delhi (minus the accountability). But they changed
their statements and ideologies faster than Lady GaGa changes her hairdo. They
went back on their promises shamelessly more number of times than any Internet
explorer user ever has through its back button. They threw away the power given
to them to gain more power through street protests, through one-sided forceful
press allegations, through gullible intellectuals and some fuc*ing annoying
group of pseudo-intellectuals that I did not even know existed in every
vicinity I have been a part of.

Why
am I a tad offensive? Coz I had never seen a bunch of activists play around
with democracy on the name of radical overhaul for transforming the
contemporary regulatory framework. I had never seen intellectual bubbleheads
turn in to chaotic ass*oles on the name of patriotic responsibilities. I had
never seen such a rage among genuine souls trying to make this nation a better
place under the leadership of a self-centered, fickle- headed misleading
chicken of a man who was all talks and no actions. Their gimmicks did not pay
off, unlike others; they couldn’t eat off other’s sobriety. I am glad they fell
flat on their faces and so did those who did not learn what they were up to
even after repeated obvious set-backs on the name of reformation.

Now,
I am glad, probably my timeline wouldn’t look like a place that’s having a
clash of intellectual high moral titans anymore. I am glad, there will be no
helplessness driven volunteers trying to make so much sense that they end up
making no sense at all. I am glad this mentality of “You are wrong, if you’re
against us” dies with the verdict and if it still doesn’t then, they surely
would be the last comic standing!